[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Adaptive Management Working Group, [2007]

Book

vii, 72 p. : digital, PDF file.

This guide is the result of efforts by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Adaptive Management Working Group (AMWG) to develop protocols and information products for the application of adaptive management within DOI. The purpose of this technical guide is to present an operational definition of adaptive management, identify the conditions in which adaptive management should be considered, and describe the process of using adaptive management for managing natural resources.

This guide is the result of efforts by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Adaptive Management Working Group (AMWG) to develop protocols and information products for the application of adaptive management within DOI. The purpose of this technical guide is to present an operational definition of adaptive management, identify the conditions in which adaptive management should be considered, and describe the process of using adaptive management for managing natural resources.

Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon - soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas - at an unsustainable rate. We've burned up half the planet's known reserves of oil - one trillion barrels - in less than a century. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow. Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment the Age of Consequences--a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions- or inaction - have begun to raise unavoidable and difficult questions. How should we respond? What are effective (and realistic) solutions? In exploring these questions, White draws on his formidable experience as an environmentalist and activist as well as his experience as a father to two children living through this vital moment in time. As a result, The Age of Consequences is a book of ideas and action, but it is also a chronicle of personal experience. Readers follow White as he travels the country --- from Kansas to Los Angeles, New York City, Italy, France, Yellowstone, and New England. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781619024540 20160618

Part one: Concern. Late high fiesta

Independence day

The imperative

The parade

Terra madre

Westward ho

To complexity and beyond

Dirt day

Life is great

A view from Europe

Lucky us

A New York interlude

The windmill

Chasing Irene

Part two: Hope. The new ranch

An invitation to join the radical center

Hope on the range

The working wilderness

Thinking like a creek

Conservation in the age of consequences

Big things on small places

No ordinary burger

Redefining local

The carbon ranch

The fifth wave.

Our planet is approaching a critical environmental juncture. Across the globe we continue to deplete the five pools of carbon - soil, wood, coal, oil, and natural gas - at an unsustainable rate. We've burned up half the planet's known reserves of oil - one trillion barrels - in less than a century. When these sources of energy-rich carbon go into severe decline, as they surely will, society will follow. Former archeologist and Sierra Club activist Courtney White calls this moment the Age of Consequences--a time when the worrying consequences of our environmental actions- or inaction - have begun to raise unavoidable and difficult questions. How should we respond? What are effective (and realistic) solutions? In exploring these questions, White draws on his formidable experience as an environmentalist and activist as well as his experience as a father to two children living through this vital moment in time. As a result, The Age of Consequences is a book of ideas and action, but it is also a chronicle of personal experience. Readers follow White as he travels the country --- from Kansas to Los Angeles, New York City, Italy, France, Yellowstone, and New England. (source: Nielsen Book Data)9781619024540 20160618

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"A modern Walden--if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan--Cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in the woods while also living within our high-tech, materialist culture"-- provided by publisher.